Sweat the Small Stuff
summary
Gives concrete tactics for scaling: extract an OAuth2 provider by moving the Doorkeeper Rails engine into a standalone app with zero‑downtime, incremental deploys; use collaborative docs like Dropbox Paper to write the six‑page decision memo; adopt Amazon’s two‑pizza rule and silent reading to make meetings smaller and effective; track SRE practices like error budgets and blameless post‑mortems (cites S3 outage as a typo cascade); prefer small cross‑functional teams focused on measurable business goals over vertical code silos.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Small team advantages
- 5:41Scaling and productivity
- 7:22Recruiting and interviews
- 13:01Onboarding practices
- 15:01Team structure at scale
- 20:33Effective meeting culture
- 25:13Managing complex migrations
- 33:09Resilience and reliability
- 38:08Human-centric leadership
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